Acute Paediatric Matron - West Bromwich, United Kingdom - Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust

    Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust
    Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust West Bromwich, United Kingdom

    2 weeks ago

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    Job summary

    Paediatric Matron- Band 8a

    Now Recruiting for our new Midland Metropolitan University Hospital (MMUH)

    Are you a Paediatric Nurse with substantial experience at a senior level looking for the next step in your career?

    Are you passionate about providing and developing excellent services for babies, children and young people?

    If so Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust are looking to appoint an ambitious, compassionate and determined Paediatric Matron to ensure that children and young people get the best possible care and treatment when accessing services.

    Main duties of the job

    You will:

  • Be highly visible
  • Be clinically credible
  • Be committed to developing and transforming services
  • Work collaboratively with multi-disciplinary teams across acute and community settings.

    • For the areas you lead and manage you will be accountable for:

  • Ensuring safe, effective, responsive, high-quality services
  • Workforce management
  • Finance and budgeting
  • Education and development
  • Patient flow
  • Performance management
  • Digital technology
  • Evidence based Practice and Research

    • About us

    Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust (SWBT) is an integrated careorganisation with a budget of approximately £600 million and over 7,000 staff. Diversity and social care is at the core of what we do as the Trust provides Community and Acute Services to over half a million people in an urban centre that demands massive regeneration and has substantial premature mortality.

    Our new acute hospital, the Midland Metropolitan University Hospital (MMUH), opens in 2024 and will provide care to our local population from first class, purpose-built a result, the base of this role may change to MMUH from 2024 (or beyond). If this is applicable to your role, you will be informed during the recruitment process and continuing your application with this development of the new hospital will play an important role in the regeneration of the wider area and in improving the lives of local people and reducing health inequalities.

    We have three newly emerging strategic objectives:

  • Our People - to cultivate and sustain happy, productive and engaged staff
  • Our Patients - to be good or outstanding in everything we do
  • Our Population - to work seamlessly with our partners to improve live
    • Job description

    Job responsibilities

    Acute and Community Paediatrics is an integrated Directorate that sits within the Women & Childrens Group.

    This is an exciting time to join our team as we prepare to move to our new Acute Hospital The Midland Metropolitan University Hospital (MMUH) in October 2024. The new hospital has 40 paediatric beds over a dedicated PAU alongside, 2 wards which includes 6 HDU and 6 Adolescent beds. The first UK clinical skills lab will be embedded within MMUH allowing emphasis on education within the department. The new state of the art acute hospital in Grove Lane, Smethwick will bring together all acute services onto one site.

    If you possess strong leadership and management qualities, would like to work in a welcoming and supportive environment where you will be well supported and given the opportunity to develop to fulfil your potential and build the carer you want, we welcome an application from you.

    Person Specification

    Qualifications

    Essential

  • RNC
  • Registration with NMC

    • Desirable

  • MSc

    • Experience

    Essential

  • Extensive post-graduate and post-competency experience working with children in a variety of settings inclusive of an acute setting.
  • Experience of participating in clinical service development in response to local and national priorities involving research, audit and user feedback.
  • Experience of managing and prioritising clinical workloads and effective roster management.
  • Experience of participating in the delivery and development of training to a variety of recipients, both professional and nonprofessional.
  • Evidence of management training

    • Knowledge

    Essential

  • Knowledge & experience of managing budgets, including planning, forecasting and prioritising
  • Knowledge & experience of service-wide performance management, including undertaking supervisions and appraisals
  • Experience of leading a team and highly developed leadership skills
  • Excellent written skills for the purposes of report writing and contributing to policy documentation.